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Shays

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Shays  (shz), Daniel 1747?-1825.
American Revolutionary soldier and insurrectionist who with a band of armed men raided a government arsenal in Springfield, Massachusetts, to protest the state legislature's indifference to the economic plight of farmers (1787). The raid, known as Shays's Rebellion, was quashed by militia.


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This affair was called Shays's war, because a Captain Shays was the chief leader of the insurgents.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
If Shays had not been a DESPERATE DEBTOR, it is much to be doubted whether Massachusetts would have been plunged into a civil war.
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